This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Today's new word: Enslopification - when someone takes a perfectly comprehensible document and uses AI to turn it into an unreadable jargon-heavy mess. Special thanks to a senior policy advisor in a Crown agency for today's example #nzpol

Our power bills have become completely detached from the cost of generating and distributing electrons. Given the purpose of price rises is solely to increase the size of the dividends paid to the Crown, they’re basically just taxation by other means #nzpol

[Slams buzzer even faster than Virtual Bish] 3.7 BILLION IN CONSULTANT FEES TO BUILD NO ROADS AT ALL

I just had an email from those lovely people at Meridian telling me my power bill was going up by $35.50 a month so they can deliver the same electrons in the same way at a much higher price. The email had NO REPLY prominently in the title. I think they actually meant to say FUCK YOU #nzpol

Geoffrey Palmer: The McSkimming scandal shows we need a whole new Policing Act - https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-11-2025/geoffrey-palmer-the-mcskimming-scandal-shows-we-need-a-whole-new-policing-act - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news

This is the attitude we need to bring to all our interactions with AI chatbots #nzpol

Agencies already pay their way - they’re funded from taxation to achieve social outcomes. What Willis wants is for them to pay their way twice; once through taxation, and a second time via fees and charges and (checks notes) taxation #nzpol

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

This is a shout-out to our political cartoonists, who are doing an amazing job. Today's skewering comes courtesy of @bodycartoon.bsky.social, and other days it's @domesticanimal.bsky.social or the inimitable @rodemmerson.bsky.social or the inventive @creativeelc.bsky.social. Just: thanks #nzpol

Guy Body once again nails it #nzpol

So Mr Luxon’s government is going to campaign to reverse its own decision to not protect the Hauraki Gulf. Same as campaigning to repeal the awful RSB, that - checks notes - they decided to make law. Are voters supposed to be impressed?

This is our regular reminder that - according to IRD in 2023 - the richest 350 families in AoNZ pay an effective tax rate of only 8%. The reaction of the government to this news was to tell IRD to stop collecting the data, and give the families a tax cut #nzpol

When I read the news that Mountbatten had been arrested, I was initially disappointed he hadn’t been charged with something like - oh, I don’t know - rape of a minor, perhaps. But the charge of misconduct in public office may prove much more fatal to the whole idea of royalty in the UK

I think the look on his face is the image people have in mind when they use the phrase ‘royally fucked’

Keeping the tax low for Australian banks operating in New Zealand is how National cabinet ministers get highly paid jobs when they get thrown out of politics. NZ is the most profitable location for Australian owned banks#, #NZPol

Huh? Banks have been using a cost-plus model for the last decade with the enthusiastic endorsement and active support of RBNZ, to our national impoverishment #nzpol

Hey RBNZ I am spending money. A lot. Every day more and more. At supermarkets, on food, on power bills, on rates and taxes, more on this service and more on that. So what are you talking about?!? Me spending money isn’t the problem, the money is getting stuck somewhere … I wonder where. #nzpol

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

The Reserve Bank’s refusal to grant Fintech company Dosh a banking license amounts to open defiance of clear instructions from Parliament … a 🧵 #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Sharon totally nails it #nzpol

Our electricity bills have lost any relationship with the real costs of generating and distributing electrons. The whole point is to provide dividends to the government, so they’re effectively taxation by other means #nzpol

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Seymour’s state of the nation speech was actually quite impressive - because he managed to diagnose all the problems correctly, and then proposed policies that will make every single problem dramatically worse. That’s quite some skill #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

And I see David Seymour is going to provide a state of the nation address from Christchurch tomorrow, entitled ‘Telling it like it is’. I wonder if that means he’s going to tell everyone not to drink the water if they want to avoid talking to god on the porcelain telephone #nzpol

It’s well entrenched in common law that the polluter pays for the damages they cause to others, so I’m curious as to why the dairy industry isn’t supplying bottled water to the entirety of Christchurch #nzpol

We’re going about this golden visa thing all wrong. Let’s let billionaires buy citizenship - but the going rate is 75% of their entire wealth, donated pro rata to every Kiwi already here #nzpol

How I built the pyramids, by Brooke Van Velden. #nzpol #cartoon #Listener

These full hydro lakes and the dirt-cheap power they provide is obviously the cause of the predicted 5% increase in power prices this year #nzpol

The only reason there's an 'affordability' issue as the population ages is because the government refuses to tax rich people. The richest 350 families only pay 8% tax, and if Nicola Willis changed that, then the affordability problem goes away #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

We've been trying to open a business account with Kiwibank since October last year, and the damn thing still isn't opened. I'm trying to support our local NZ-owned bank, but the process is so obstructive and bureaucratic it would make the former Soviet Union blush with embarrassment #nzpol

Now there IS genuinely some work which LLMs can do, but the fact LLMs can do it is itself proof the work is bullshit (inventing summaries for pointless makework meetings, generating insincere marketing spam) but acknowledging THAT would mean admitting that our economic model is a complete charade

What’s wrong with Trouty McTroutface all of a sudden? #kikorangi

Also to note, even if it turns out RBNZ threw money at the Aussie banks with all the misplaced enthusiasm of a manic meth addict, both the Governor and the Chair have already been replaced #nzpol

And I’m completely sure that Alphabet and its AI data centers will totally be around in 100 years time to pay the coupons on those bonds … yes sir, sign here, press hard, third copy is yours #nzpol

Our electricity bills are simply taxation by other means. The government is the major shareholder in most of the gentailers, and the primary beneficiary of unnaturally inflated prices and excessive dividends. This is just taxation via our power accounts #nzpol

Let’s have a little bit of a chat about an economic concept known as the learning rate, and why it makes an LNG terminal a batshit insane idea 🧵 #nzpol

Wouldn’t it be lovely if the headline read ‘Drivers run down two students before school’. Although maybe these are super-amazing AI powered self-driving cars with bad attitudes and no actual drivers were involved, who knows #nzpol

I’m loving the idea that this thing could be up and running by next winter. It’s an LNG regassification plant, not an inflatable bouncy castle #nzpol

This makes perfect sense if we regard electricity bills as taxation by other means. The government is the majority shareholder of the power companies and largest beneficiary of dividends, so does very nicely when power prices stay high - and this policy does exactly that #nzpol

This is a regular reminder that bank margins in AoNZ are already - in the case of ANZ - some 53% higher than their parent banks in Aussie. This is profiteering, pure and simple #nzpol

Also: soon to be divorced. Those were his wife’s photos

Chaucer: dead for more than 600 years, but still right up with the zeitgeist

You know that line, not every man? Well, it really is every man who still chooses to use Xitter. Complicity is a thing #nzpol

Perhaps we should just admit that the country only works at all because of the network of Aunties, and start electing governments that are basically made up of Aunties #nzpol

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “What we need to do is … “

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

I propose that the repeal of all these exploitative pro-oligarch initiatives from Luxon and co is known as the ‘Yeah Nah Act’ #nzpol

SCALE is extremely helpful for anyone wondering is this thing a yellow legged hornet or nah.